When the term Big Data dies, what comes next?

February 27, 2013

Technology executive John De Goes points out that the term “big data” has been abused for overselling just about any data product, and indicates new, more instructive terms that the industry should focus on:

As the industry matures, there won’t be a single term that replaces the big data moniker. Instead, different tools and technologies will carve out different niches, each more narrowly focused and highly specialized than the universal sledgehammer that was big data.